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    Credit: ©Lary Shaffer/The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13710

    High slakes cottage

    Date
    1973
    Creator
    Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Zoologist
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    Material
    Dimensions
    width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
    Subject
    Description
    Landscape view of High slakes cottage, near Milburn, Cumbria, England, holiday home to Niko Tinbergen.


    One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Shaffer for the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group.

    Nikolaas Tinbergen, (1907–1988), Dutch authority on animal behaviour and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1973, with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1962.

    Lary Shaffer (b.1947) American animal behaviourist and photographer, studied under Niko Tinbergen for his doctorate in zoology and acted as a natural history cameraman for BBC and other projects, 1968-1976.
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